Films / Películas

It not be said, each year our discomfort grows exponentially. The opportunity to catch a glance of a good film is dim. Narrow-minded individuals have orchestrated a plot so despicable that as a result we must thrive, or at least try, in the online purchasing of films. Nonetheless, rest assured, we have seen many a film in 2010, the year of cheerful publications and unduly notifications. Whilst we’d very much enjoy writing a review for those productions deemed of great importance, we must relinquish and thus point out a mere dozen (or rather two dozens) of reviews opportunely posted in IMDB. Beware reader, for in yonder virtual valleys lies unfathomably pseudo-intellectual discourse; sufficient in our private thought that these opinions spilled delinquent out of our mouths are naught but mere ideas.



Since far-off 2001 to still vibrant 2010, an entire decade comprised in this here leaflet. From 1 to 100, all deserving works are herein featured. Bereaved, shirk from the world of critics, I present thee my true considerations. Set me to thy bidding as thou would.
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Cada año hay más multicines y mayor cantidad de salas, y cada vez hay menos películas. Nadie se sorprenderá al escuchar esta aparente paradoja. Las distribuidoras, evidentemente, ahora solamente apuestan por lo seguro; eso sí, que conste que no tengo nada en contra de lo netamente comercial pero hay veces en las que un poco más de variedad sería bienvenida. A pesar de una cartelera un tanto desoladora, este año hubo dos películas extraordinarias (sin contar las que dieron en el Festival de Lima ni las numerosas que vi yo por mi cuenta, sediento de buen cine): “Låt den rätte komma in” (Criatura de la noche) y “Das Weisse Band” (La Cinta Blanca).


A ojo de buen cubero puedo afirmar, sin temor a equivocarme, que este año he visto entre películas, documentales y largometrajes, la nada despreciable cifra de 220 producciones, frente a las 149 que vi durante el 2009. Aunque me gustaría comentar todas las que me han parecido interesante, debo limitarme solamente a una veintena, reseñadas en IMDB.


A continuación los links (basta con buscar las reseñas en las que aparece mi nombre “Arcadio Bolaños” y si se animan a votar a favor sería un buen detalle…). Finalmente un top 100 (actualizado y que abarca mucho más que la presente década).

  Amor crudo (2008)                                                     
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1419747/usercomments

 Beautiful Thing (1996)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115640/usercomments?start=60

Black Sheep Boy (1995)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0136732/usercomments

Borstal Boy (2000)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221838/usercomments?start=10

Dream Boy (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0889595/usercomments

Du poil sous les roses (2000)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250343/usercomments

Eban and Charley (2000)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253063/usercomments?start=10

Far from Heaven (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297884/usercomments?start=30

Glue (2006)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484039/usercomments

Harry + Max (2004)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390080/usercomments

Ken Park (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209077/usercomments?start=30

Latch Key (2005)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464083/usercomments

Masturbation: Putting the Fun Into Self-Loving (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0333884/usercomments

Morte a Venezia (1971)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067445/usercomments?start=10

No Skin Off My Ass (1991)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102544/usercomments

Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151384/usercomments

Savage Grace (2007)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379976/usercomments?start=10

The Living End (1992)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104745/usercomments

Tom Clay Jesus (2001)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277387/usercomments

Totally F***ed Up (1993)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108366/usercomments

Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430768/usercomments

Wrecked (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1555219/usercomments













TOP 100


1. THE HOURS (2002) Stephen Daldry
2. THE FOUNTAIN (2006) Darren Aronofsky
3. STARDUST MEMORIES (1980) Woody Allen
4. LE CHARME DISCRETE DE LA BOURGESIE (1972) Luis Buñuel
5. LA CENA (1998) Ettore Scola
6. Requiem for a Dream (2000) Darren Aronofsky
7. Billy Elliot (2000) Stephen Daldry
8. Fellini - Satyricon (1969) Federico Fellini
9. Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen
10. Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini
11. Morte a Venezia (1971) Luchino Visconti
12. Todo sobre mi madre (1999) Pedro Almodóvar
13. Lost in Translation (2003) Sofia Coppola
14. The Sixth Sense (1999) M. Night Shyamalan
15. Un Lugar en el Mundo (1992) Adolfo Aristarain
16. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
17. Elephant (2003) Gus Van Sant
18. Abre Los Ojos (1997) Alejandro Amenábar
19. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Woody Allen
20. The Squid and the Whale (2005) Noah Baumbach
21. Dogville (2003) Lars von Trier
22. Amarcord (1973) Federico Fellini
23. My Own Private Idaho (1991) Gus Van Sant
24. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick
25. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) Jean-Marc Vallée
26. Igby Goes Down (2002) Burr Steers
27. Volver (2006) Pedro Almodóvar
28. Match Point (2005) Woody Allen
29. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
30. La Stanza del Figlio (2001) Nanni Moretti
31. Unbreakable (2000) M. Night Shyamalan
32. Hana-bi (1997) Takeshi Kitano
33. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Woody Allen
34. La pianiste (2001) Michael Haneke
35. The Remains of the Day (1993) James Ivory
36. Låt den rätte komma in (2008) Tomas Alfredson
37. Krampack (2000) Cesc Gay
38. Broken Flowers (2005) Jim Jarmusch
39. The Others (2001) Alejandro Amenábar
40. Life as a House (2001) Irwin Winkler
41. Tillsammans (2000) Lukas Moodysson
42. The Ice Storm (1997) Ang Lee
43. Memento (2000) Christopher Nolan
44. Amores Perros (2000) Alejandro González Iñárritu
45. Funny Games U.S. (2007) Michael Haneke
46. Being John Malkovich (1999) Spike Jonze
47. Burn after reading (2008) Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
48. Magnolia (1999) Paul Thomas Anderson
49. Twelve and Holding (2005) Michael Cuesta
50. The life aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) Wes Anderson
51. Running with scissors (2006) Ryan Murphy
52. Wonder Boys (2000) Curtis Hanson
53. Signs (2002) M. Night Shyamalan
54. The Silence of the lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme
55. Sideways (2004) Alexander Payne
56. Stay (2005) Marc Forster
57. Love Actually (2003) Richard Curtis
58. The Girl in the Café (2005) David Yates
59. Brick (2005) Rian Johnson
60. Celebrity (1998) Woody Allen
61. Sommersturm (2004) Marco Kreuzpaintner
62. Paris je t’aime (2006) Gus van Sant, Alexander Payne et al.
63. Lola rennt (1998) Tom Tykwer
64. Kill Bill vol. 1 (2003) Quentin Tarantino
65. Kill Bill vol. 2 (2004) Quentin Tarantino
66. Pay it forward (2000) Mimi Leder
67. Bowling for Columbine (2002) M Moore
68. Small time crooks (2000) Woody Allen
69. Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008) Bruce La Bruce
70. The Weather Man (2005) Gore Verbinski
71. Mystic River (2003) Clint Eastwood
72. Total Eclipse (1995) Agnieszka Holland
73. Días de Santiago (2004) Josué Méndez
74. Goodbye Lenin (2003) Wolfgang Becker
75. Catch me if you can (2002) Steven Spielberg
76. Donnie Darko (2001) Richard Kelly
77. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Michel Gondry
78. The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
79. Hedwig and the angry inch (2001) John Cameron Mitchell
80. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) James Cameron
81. Apt Pupil (1998) Bryan Singer
82. The Mighty (1998) Peter Chelsom
83. Children of men (2006) Alfonso Cuarón
84. Diary of the dead (2007) George A. Romero
85. The last action hero (1993) John McTiernan
86. Como un relámpago (1996) Miguel Hermoso
87. Alien (1979) Ridley Scott
88. The Good Life (2007) Stephen Berra
89. Léon (1994) Luc Besson
90. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Jim Sharman
91. 28 Days Later (2002) Danny Boyle
92. The Fifth Element (1997) Luc Besson
93. Night of the living dead (1968) George A. Romero
94. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Anthony Minghella
95. Den osynlige (2002) Bergvall & Sandquist.
96. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Peter Jackson
97. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Peter Jackson
98. Titanic (1997) James Cameron
99. The Dreamers (2003) Bernardo Bertolucci
100. The Dark Knight (2008) Christopher Nolan